I’m a regex noob, so this may be a silly question, but why does the following not work? {{ $highlighted := replaceRE "\?\?(.*?)\?\?" "<mark>$1</mark>" "??thing to highlight??" }} The regex appears to be valid when testing it in http://regexr.com/ , but I just get a generic syntax error in my consol…

replaceRE returns generic syntax error

moorereason July 20, 2017, 2:20pm 8

Yes, that’s what I mean.

"\\?\\?(.*?)\\?\\?"

You can also use backticks to send a literal string, which doesn’t support escape sequences.

`\?\?(.*?)\?\?`

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